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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 11h

It’s infuriating that so mediocre and crude a power as Russia is running rings round European democracies and that they have so many willing collaborators.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14h

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16h

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump No Longer Remembers That He Was President and Controlled the FBI on January 6, 2021, Confirming Americans' Worst Fears About His Advanced Dementia

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14h

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14h

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

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Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

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Andy Wood @andyatnanyuki.bsky.social · 13h

Cutting

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 14h

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices" - Adam Smith.

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 1d

A study in @nature.com shows the world’s biggest oil & gas companies contribute less than 1.5% to renewable energy capacity — despite claiming for years to be leading the energy transition.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 1d

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 2d

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 1d

This is an out of the money but good take.

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 2d

Among the many possibilities for the next few years, the scenario of swapping one pair of dominant parties (Lab and Con) for another (Reform and LD) is intriguing, under-discussed and, in English elections, not entirely implausible either (several county councils made this leap in May)

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 2d

Aggregate Result of the 122 Council By-Elections (for 125 Seats) since the 2025 Local Elections:

RFM: 47 (+40)
LDM: 32 (+10)
CON: 13 (-15)
LAB: 12 (-30)
GRN: 11 (+3)
Ind: 5 (-4)
Local: 3 (-3)
SNP: 1 (-1)
PLC: 1 (=)

Explore: electionmaps.uk/byelections-...

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Andy Wood @andyatnanyuki.bsky.social · 1d

Watching MAGA cleaving from Trump in real time.

Andy Wood @andyatnanyuki.bsky.social · 1d

Jared and the real estate guy have played POTUS opening another cleft in MAGA
Melania is openly talking to Putin, presumably about the adoptions.
Blessed are the deal makers, indeed.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 1d

Argentina. Qatar. Trump is selling out America, piece by piece. Where did America First go?

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

United States Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, flanked by Trump's daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, get loudly booed in Tel Aviv, Israel as they praise Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Andy Wood @andyatnanyuki.bsky.social · 1d

Paging @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
Quick question- will the #BBC start asking the leaders of Reform what they think of the Trump regimes‘s latest corrupt deals?

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 1d

Argentina. Qatar. Trump is selling out America, piece by piece. Where did America First go?

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Andy Wood @andyatnanyuki.bsky.social · 1d

Paging @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
Quick question- will the #BBC start asking the leaders of Reform what they think of the Trump regimes‘s latest corrupt deals?

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 1d

Argentina. Qatar. Trump is selling out America, piece by piece. Where did America First go?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Grab the popcorn.

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Andy Wood @andyatnanyuki.bsky.social · 1d

The article appears to be dated 2024, so plenty of time for there to have been action…
Crickets

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Andy Wood @andyatnanyuki.bsky.social · 1d

Did RFK jnr advise POTUS to get vaccinated against Covid and ‘flu?

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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 1d

They are already hallucinatory, often racist, damaging to the environment and confidently wrong on even the most basic questions ….making them *more* magacentric might be hard…